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We live off grid, and offer these free resources we have found that have helped us in our journey towards independence and self sufficiency. New items will be listed as we find them. To suggest a resource, please email Steve @ sspence@green-trust.org
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Build a Berkey style water purifier, using two plastic pails, and one or more berkey filters. Pure drinking water on a budget. bucketfilter.pdf |
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Free DIY Solar Install Tutorial
DIY Solar Install.pdf Solar Presentation.ppt DIY Build Your Own PV Panels (approved and tested by Green-Trust!) |
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Free 3 Part Wind Turbine Tutorial
Wind1-1.pdf Wind1-2.pdf Wind1-3.pdf DIY Build Your Own Wind Turbine Documentation Wind Turbine Power Output Calculator |
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Free 7 Part Al Rutan Methane Bio-Digester Tutorial
Methane1-1.pdf Methane1-2.pdf Methane1-3.pdf Methane1-4.pdf Methane1-5.pdf Methane1-6.pdf Methane1-7.pdf Al's 3 hour video on Methane production and Use |
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Spotlight on Off Gridders, By Dave Neeley of Off Grid Living and Homesteading (new articles coming often)
Spotlight 1 - Steve Spence Spotlight 2 - Kent Eastwood |
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| Emergency Preparedness and Survival Basics Guide canucks_ebook.pdf | ||
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Foraging for Wild Foods (UK)The Fast Wild Food Cookbook Foraging for Wild Foods (US)Flagstaff Wild Foraging Project |
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Free Micro Hydro Tutorials
A GUIDE TO UK MINI-HYDRO DEVELOPMENTS The Generation of Renewable Electricity Project: Micro-Hydro Renewable Energy Systems 402 (Start with Tutorial 4) Hydro & Electrical Basics Project report – Huai Kra Thing Micro-hydro project Hydropower Team at DoradoVista, Inc. Green-Trust's Hydro resource page |
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Build your own Human Powered Bicycle generator
200 Watt Bicycle Pedal Power / Solar Power Generator Station Bicycle Powered Generator WaterPod Bicycle Energy Generator Bicycle Generator Videos |
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Convert your diesel to run on used fryer oil (WVO)
DIY Diesel to Veggie Oil Conversion Veggie Collection Veggie Conversion |
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| Making a super efficient fridge (only 0.1 kWh a day), from a chest freezer! http://mtbest.net/chest_fridge.pdf | ||
| Guide to Conserving Energy around the home and in the car. DIY conservation and efficiency.pdf | ||
| Food storage tips for disaster situations. Food Storage Tips.pdf | ||
| LDS Preparedness manual. We are not Mormon, but there is wisdom within these pages. Preparedness.pdf | ||
| Car and deep cycle battery answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), tips, manufacturer's information, references and hyperlinks are contained on this consumer oriented Web site about car, motorcycle, power sports, truck, boat, marine, recreational vehicle, solar, and other starting and deep cycle applications. Read our Battery Care Document, the Battery FAQ, and another good one at Energy Unlimited. | ||
| A guide to composting humanure. Humanure Handbook | ||
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Rain Water Harvesting Manual. RainwaterHarvestingManual.pdf Build A Rain Barrel system. rainbarrel.pdf Roof and Cistern Calculations for a rain water harvesting system. rainwater.pdf Roof and Cistern Calculations for a rain water harvesting system (live calculator version). Rain Water & Cistern Calculators |
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Energy efficient cooking using a Rocket Stove. Rocket Stove Design Principles for Wood Burning Stoves. Aprovecho Rocket Stove Another Aprovecho stove, multi-pot, masonry rocket. Justa Stove Plans |
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| Organic Gardening Tips. Basics on why and how. Organic Gardening Tips | ||
| DIY Emergency Power System. Battery, Inverter, Solar Charger, the basics of an off grid power system. How to make your own Emergency Power System.pdf | ||
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Medical Info: (suggested by LEWIS T. PACE, JR.) Where there is no Doctor (updated 2009) Where there is no Dentist (updated 2009) Special Operations Forces Medical Handbook (updated 2001) Emergency War Surgery (updated 2004) The Merck Manual of Medical Information—Second Home Edition (Online Edition) |
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| FREE eBook Offer From Real Goods Solar! Thinking about solar power for your home or business? Want more information on how solar power works? Interested in what you can do to help the environment? For a limited time you can get all the answers you are looking for with FREE information from the Real Goods Solar Living Source Book.Renewable Energy 101 | ||
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Steve's Favorites: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) by Daniel Defoe The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Survivalist works of fiction |
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| David J.C. MacKay. Sustainable Energy – without the hot air. UIT Cambridge, 2008. ISBN 978-0-9544529-3-3. Available free online from www.withouthotair.com. |
